The entrepreneur and travel blogger made it to South Korea one year after that eye-opening trip to the "Hermit Kingdom." He was shocked by how differently citizens of North and South Korea lead their lives.

"Why were the people in the North not allowed to freely interact and share their thoughts with me, while the people in the South could do whatever the heck they wanted?" he asks in a video he made comparing the two countries. "Seeing these differences firsthand broke my heart. Why has life become so different for the Korean people in just a few generations?"

Here are photos from Laukaitis' travels that show just how drastic the differences between North and South Korea are.

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Jacob Laukaitis, an entrepreneur and travel blogger, has visited both North Korea and South Korea during his travels.